<div dir="auto">The FCC 10-year subsidies on very sparse areas left after other areas attract some carrier attention often end up funding satellite or some odd wireless stuff. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This little piece of money was left after CAF2 attracted projects that got about <span class="money">$150</span> million a year of the <span class="money">$200</span> million available. That <span class="money">$200</span> million was what was left after CAF.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Over at USDA there is the <span class="money">$600</span> million being spent on reconnect that carriers cannot directly combine with the FCC money, and another <span class="money">$350</span> million a year for 5 years from HR2 for which the rules are still being written. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So far, the idea is to throw money at smaller carriers, to push their resources over the top by cutting what they would otherwise need to deploy by 15-30%. But the USDA money in some cases could indeed be used to supply, say, 75% of the total cost.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 16, 2019, 8:25 PM Drew Einhorn <<a href="mailto:drew.einhorn@gmail.com">drew.einhorn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Not all incumbents are the same.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">CenturyLink's goal is to kill all competition even in markets they have no intention of serving.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Past performance should be an important criteria for future grant applications.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 16, 2019, 18:12 Jeff <<a href="mailto:jeff@mountainconnect.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">jeff@mountainconnect.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">I understand but it seems to me we give a “pass” to the outcomes of federal subsidies and have done so for a very long time – especially with the Incumbents. Rural citizens, for the most part, don’t pay attention to the details nor should
we have an expectation that they would but I would be curious to know the total amount of federal subsidies allocated over the past decade versus outcomes. Does this money make a profound difference and are we really uplifting our rural communities?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Doug Dawson <<a href="mailto:blackbean2@ccgcomm.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">blackbean2@ccgcomm.com</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, July 16, 2019 at 5:59 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>"<a href="mailto:jeff@mountainconnect.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">jeff@mountainconnect.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:jeff@mountainconnect.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">jeff@mountainconnect.org</a>>, Steve Ross <<a href="mailto:editorsteve@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">editorsteve@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc: </b>Richard Lowenberg <<a href="mailto:rl@1st-mile.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">rl@1st-mile.org</a>>, 1st-Mile-NM <<a href="mailto:1st-mile-nm@mailman.dcn.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">1st-mile-nm@mailman.dcn.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [1st-mile-nm] FCC Rural BB Funding in 23 states: not NM<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ha. Jeff is right. The word I’m hearing from the trenches is that Frontier and CenturyLink spent just enough money out of CAF II to be able to make a claim that they tried, but they didn’t spend nearly all that the FCC gave them.
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<p class="MsoNormal">What Steve is describing is what some if the smaller telcos did with ACAM funds. The FCC gave them enough to upgrade to DSL and the companies borrowed the rest of to money needed to build FTTH.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Jeff <<a href="mailto:jeff@mountainconnect.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">jeff@mountainconnect.org</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, July 16, 2019 at 7:54 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>Steve Ross <<a href="mailto:editorsteve@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">editorsteve@gmail.com</a>>, Doug Dawson <<a href="mailto:blackbean2@ccgcomm.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">blackbean2@ccgcomm.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc: </b>Richard Lowenberg <<a href="mailto:rl@1st-mile.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">rl@1st-mile.org</a>>, 1st-Mile-NM <<a href="mailto:1st-mile-nm@mailman.dcn.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">1st-mile-nm@mailman.dcn.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [1st-mile-nm] FCC Rural BB Funding in 23 states: not NM</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am curious Steve, do you really think Incumbents will actually use the money to build sustainable solutions?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">1st-mile-nm <1st-mile-nm-bounces+jeff=<a href="mailto:mountainconnect.org@mailman.dcn.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">mountainconnect.org@mailman.dcn.org</a>> on behalf of Steve Ross <<a href="mailto:editorsteve@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">editorsteve@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, July 16, 2019 at 4:29 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>Doug Dawson <<a href="mailto:blackbean2@ccgcomm.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">blackbean2@ccgcomm.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc: </b>Richard Lowenberg <<a href="mailto:rl@1st-mile.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">rl@1st-mile.org</a>>, 1st-Mile-NM <<a href="mailto:1st-mile-nm@mailman.dcn.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">1st-mile-nm@mailman.dcn.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [1st-mile-nm] FCC Rural BB Funding in 23 states: not NM</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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a reasonable distance from a customer in order to shorten the loops. <u></u><u></u></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">1st-mile-nm <<a href="mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces@mailman.dcn.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">1st-mile-nm-bounces@mailman.dcn.org</a>> on behalf of "David Breecker [dba]" <<a href="mailto:david@breeckerassociates.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">david@breeckerassociates.com</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, July 16, 2019 at 12:12 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>Richard Lowenberg <<a href="mailto:rl@1st-mile.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">rl@1st-mile.org</a>><br>
<b>Cc: </b>1st-Mile-NM <<a href="mailto:1st-mile-nm@mailman.dcn.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">1st-mile-nm@mailman.dcn.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [1st-mile-nm] FCC Rural BB Funding in 23 states: not NM</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<a href="https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-authorizes-524-million-rural-broadband-expansion-23-states" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-authorizes-524-million-rural-broadband-expansion-23-states</a><br>
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Full Title: FCC Authorizes $524 Million for Rural Broadband Expansion in 23 States<br>
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The FCC authorized over $524 million in funding over the next decade to expand broadband to 205,520 unserved rural homes & businesses in 23 states, representing the 3rd wave of support from last year's successful Connect America Fund Phase II auction.<br>
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No funding for NM on this round.<br>
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